Paris’ First Car Free Day A Success

launched the event with the intention to lower carbon emissions in the city where most cars run on diesel fuel . Hidalgo has vowed to completely eradicate diesel use by 2020 in Paris and extend car-free areas along the Seine. With the city’s first car free day, she hoped to show people that they “are not obliged to move around in a personal car, there are other ways to approach mobility in a city.”